CVS Caremark conducts study on medication adherence
Purchasing cheap medication from Canada can help individuals save money and also promote better adherence to their doctors' recommendations.
Purchasing cheap medication from Canada can help individuals save money and also promote better adherence to their doctors' recommendations. According to a study from CVS Caremark, an unwillingness to take prescription drugs according to physicians' orders can result in poor health and ineffective management of diseases such as diabetes. The organization recently unveiled a consumer communication program that was designed to encourage patients to adhere to their medication schedules.
The initiative was created through the collaboration of CVS Caremark, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and Dartmouth College's Tuck Business School.
Researchers measured the impact of different communications using behavioral science principles of delivering timely, relevant and easy-to-understand messages to consumers.
"By giving patients who are signing up for prescriptions online an active choice concerning their care, we have seen a significant improvement in the number of people signing up for our automatic prescription refill program," said CVS Caremark vice president Bari Harlam.
He added that such programs offer the opportunity to improve the quality of pharmacy care as well as reduce overall medical costs.
|
